Detachable wheel-rim.



' PATENTED DEC. 24, 1907.

' R. HEALY. DETAOHABLE WHEEL RIM.

APPLIOATION FILED DEC. 28, 1906.

ATTORNEY? ably securing tires to vehicle wheels and- .more particularly to that class of devices in UNITED STATES PATENT orrrcn.

RAYMOND HEA Y, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

DETAGHAIBLE WHEEL-RIM.

To all whom it may concern):

Be it known that I, RAYMOND HEALY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, (with ost-oifice address 90 Gold street, New Yorg) have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Detachable VVheeLRims, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to means for detachwhich a metallic rim carrying a pneumatic tire is detachably secured to the felly of the wheel by the use of side plates and clamping bolts.

The invention relates more articularly to the construction'or form of t e side plates and the manner of combining the same with circumferential liners interposed between the rim and folly, and the object of the invention isto provide a simple and improved construction in which the tire-carrying metallic rim shall be solidly-supported by the combined side plate and linerson its inside within the whole circumferential space extending from the outer edge of one side plate to the outer edge of the o posite side plate as hereinafter more particu arly set forth.

The invention consists in the novel 'com-' bination of side plates, liners and rims more particularly hereinafter set forth and then specified in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a wheel in side elevation and par-- has an expanded or enlarged outer edge eX- panded transversely away from the inner face of theplate and ofsuchshape on its bearing surface as to conform to the bearing surface of the rim B while at the same time permitting said plates to be drawn together ythe action of the clamping bolt. It willbe further seen that theiiiclination of, the

bearing face and of the bearing surface of the Specification of Letters Patent. I Application filed December 2&1906- Berial No. 349.759.

Patented Dec. 24, 1907.

rim is such that the plates will tend to ex pand the rim when they are drawn together.

The inner side of each bearing edge of the side plate is moreover flush with the inner vertical face of the said plate, or, in other,

words, the inner face of each plate from the point of contact of said face with the felly to the oint of contact of the rim with the edge of t e plate forins'a fiat face adapted to engage with the circumferential liners D, E interposed between the rim B and the felly A. I

These liners are of any suitable metal. and

have inclined or wedge-shaped surfaces and, as will be seen, completely fill the s ace be tween the outer circumference of t e felly and the inside of the rim and extend, moreover, clear across the space from theouter edge of one vertical face on the inside of a side plate to the inner face of the opposite side plate so that there will be practically a rim B extending from the outer edge of one continuous supporting surface for the metal side plate across beneath the space between them to the outer edge of the opposite plate, the whole forming a solid expanslble support for the rim which, by the operation of the bolts, will take up any slack or play and thereby aiford asolid and firm connection of tlre'rim to the felly. 1

Transverse slots (Z, c may be provided at intervals in the liners D, E to allow for the insertion of the heads of the usual Spreaders S;

In the operation of the device, when it is desired to substitute a new tire for the old One, it is simply necessary to remove the nuts of'the bolts which fasten the annular plates G, H to the felly and on removal'of one plate lDl'lGIllll will readily leave the wheel owing to the inclination of the bearing surfaces of the liners, which inclination is such that the upper liner has its thickest edge adjacent to the removable retaining plate. The liners also facilitate the placing of a new rim as they are drawn in place and press against the rim and felly when the retaining plate is drawn up by the action of the bolts which draw inovement ispermitted owing to the conformation of the edge of the plate itself. As will be seen, the plates G, H. are duplicates of one another and areof simple form. Moreover, their abutting orplainping faces, which engage the circumferential liners, are straight and flush with the inside of the supporting edge on which the rim rests, hus permitting the whole space inclosed by the felly, the plates and the insideface of the rim to be filled in solid by circumferential liners of the aim lest form.

at I claim as my invention is:

1. The combination of a tire-carrying rim, or felly, a pair of side plates having inclined bearing edges for the rim expanded outwardly and having their inside faces between thefelly and rim flush as described, and a pair of circumferential liners superposed in the space between the telly and. inside of the rim, all as described to form an expansible solid bearing for the rim extendin continuously from the outside of the edge 0 one plate to the outside edge of the opposite plate, as and for the purpose described.

2. The combination of a metal tire-carrying rim, a fellv, side plates having expanded edges. adapted to form a hearing or support for the rim, the inside of which bearin is fiushwith the vertical face or" the side plate outside the telly, a pair of circumferential liners superposed upon one another and fillmg the spaeehet" between the *1 the telly and rim and cal are of tee side plates and clamping holts adapted to draw said side plates tegiether and expand the liners by en'- gagement of said vertical faces with the larger edges of the liners, all as described so as to form the expansible solid bearing for the rim extending continuously from the outer edge of one side plate across the space between the bearing faces to the outer edge of the opposite side plate,

3. The combination substantially'as described of a tire-carrying metallic rim, a wheel felly, a pair of side plates each afiord ing a bearing at its edge for the rim and hav- RAYMOND HEALY.

Witnesses C. T. TiSGHNER, J12, Lumen Brown. 

